Aven v. Eastman

Marshall, Presiding Justice.

This is a petition for declaratory judgment brought by Gordon and Carl Aven, Jr., who are the administrators of the estate of their father, Dr. Carl Aven, Sr., who died in 1976. Item V of Dr. Aven’s will establishes a marital-deduction trust, with the income to be paid to Dr. Aven’s wife, Mary Aven (the administrators’ stepmother) for her life. Item V of Dr. Aven’s will further provided that upon his wife’s death, the property remaining in the trust would be paid “to such persons and in such manner as my said wife, may, by her last will and testament, direct and…